"Critics argue that giving amnesty to 12 to 30 million illegal aliens in the U.S. would have an immediate negative impact on America’s working and middle class — specifically black Americans and the white working class — who would be in direct competition for blue-collar jobs with the largely low-skilled illegal alien population." JOHN BINDER

Even
the New York Timessuggests
that the Clinton Foundation’s acceptance of “millions of dollars in
donations from Middle Eastern countries known for violence against women and
for denying them many basic freedoms” makes Hillary Clinton a hypocrite on
women’s rights issues.

Clinton
will headline two prominent events focused on women’s rights this week. One
will commemorate her 1995 women’s rights speech in China and the other will
reveal her foundation’s “No Ceilings” report, which is a progress report on
women’s rights since that 1995 address. Unlike her last run for the presidency,
Clinton is planning to go all-in on gender issues in her likely 2016
campaign.

But
her foundation’s acceptance of millions from Middle Eastern regimes with dismal
women’s rights records may complicate Clinton’s efforts to cast herself as a
champion for women’s rights. Even the Times declared that
“even her most strident critics could not have predicted that Mrs. Clinton would
prove vulnerable” on women’s rights issues.

As
the Timesnoted,
“the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation has accepted tens of millions
of dollars in donations from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait,
Oman, Qatar, Algeria and Brunei — all of which the State Department has faulted
over their records on sex discrimination and other human-rights issues.”

For
instance, in 2011, Hillary Clinton, while Secretary of State, blasted Saudi
Arabia for “a lack of equal rights for women and children” after her State
Department issued a critical report. The Clinton Foundation, though, according
to the Times
report, has accepted at least $10 million from the nation since 2001. In
addition, “at least $1 million more was donated by Friends of Saudi Arabia,
co-founded by a Saudi prince.”

At
the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), potential GOP presidential
candidate Carly Fiorina noted that Clinton “tweets about women’s rights in this
country and takes money from governments that deny women the most basic human
rights.”

Over
the weekend, Bill Clinton defended the donations to the Clinton Foundation from
Middle Eastern regimes.

“Do
we agree with everything they do? No. But they’re helping us fight ISIS,” Bill
Clinton reportedly
said. “You’ve got to decide when you do this work whether it will do more
good than harm if someone helps you from another country.”

"The lies and
demagogy in Obama’s Selma speech cannot conceal the huge class gulf between the
government he heads and the self-sacrificing workers and youth who led the
fight for civil rights. They fought for equality. He represents
privilege."

“Slowly, Mr. Obama has changed the United
States into another country — the Soviet States of America — an authoritarian
state where false promises of "hope and change" were used to manipulate
the public.”

“What
we're seeing is our Congress and national leadership dismantling our laws by
not enforcing them. Lawlessness becomes the norm, just like Third World
corruption. Illegal aliens now have more rights and privileges than Americans.
If you are an illegal alien, you can drive a car without a driver's license or
insurance. You may obtain medical care without paying. You may work without
paying taxes. Your children enjoy free education at the expense of taxpaying
Americans.”

THE HOPE AND CHANGE CLOWN ASSAULTS THE AMERICAN MIDDLE
CLASS AS HE HANDS BILLIONS IN WELFARE TO HIS BANKSTER DONORS!

Today,
President Obama will sign a bill to cut $8.7 billion from the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, slashing almost
$100 per month in benefits for nearly a million households.

The
attack on food stamps comes as Obama and the Democrats posture in the run-up to
this year’s mid-term elections as opponents of social inequality and defenders
of the poor and jobless. Nowhere in the establishment media is the glaring
contradiction between what the Democrats say and what they do even discussed.

"The lies and demagogy in Obama’s Selma speech cannot conceal the huge class gulf between the government he heads and the self-sacrificing workers and youth who led the fight for civil rights. They fought for equality. He represents privilege."

Selma and the legacy of the US civil rights movement

9 March 2015

Over the weekend, President Barack Obama headed an official 50th anniversary commemoration of “Bloody Sunday.” On that day, March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights marchers demanding the right to vote were set upon and beaten by police as they marched over the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma, Alabama, heading for the state capital, Montgomery.

Obama’s ceremony was a political farce, a state-sanctioned exercise aimed at sanctifying a corrupt apparatus with the blood of those who made great sacrifices—in many cases, the ultimate sacrifice—as part of the civil rights movement. While many thousands of ordinary people attended, the commemoration was presided over by representatives of the corporate and financial elite, including 100 members of Congress of both parties, as well as George W. Bush, who left office the most despised president in US history.

The event was designed to obscure the significance of Selma, the civil rights movement as a whole, and the trajectory of American politics during the five decades since.

The repression meted out on “Bloody Sunday” was one episode in a campaign of police violence aimed at crushing protests against the system of Jim Crow segregation in the American South. Southern blacks faced a raft of discriminatory measures, such as the poll tax, that effectively disenfranchised them.

While the specific aim of the civil rights movement was to end racial discrimination, it was part of a wave of social conflict that engulfed the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It came only a few decades after the explosive battles out of which the industrial unions were formed in the 1930s. It was followed by powerful workers’ strikes in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the urban rebellions against discrimination and poverty, and the mass protest movement against the Vietnam War.

American capitalism was in deep crisis. The underlying momentum for the civil rights movement was imparted by the immense social struggles of the working class. The masses of workers and youth, black and white, who participated in the civil rights struggle saw it as one component of a broader social movement, carried out in the face of bitter resistance from the ruling class and its political representatives.

The form the struggle took was complicated, however, by the abstention of the AFL-CIO trade unions, politically aligned with the Democratic Party and American imperialism. The Democrats, based at the time on an alliance between northern liberals and southern racists, worked for a protracted period to undermine all attempts to end legally enforced racial segregation. The unions avoided any actions that would disrupt their political alliance with the Democrats, including blocking efforts to organize black workers in the south.

UNIONS CONTINUED TO BE ALIGNED WITH THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S AGENDA OF PUTTING AN LOW WAGE ILLEGAL INTO EVERY JOB AND THEN HANDING THEM WELFARE PAID OFF THE BACKS OF LEGALS TO MAKE UP FOR THE MISERABLE WAGES.

In the face of the social upheavals of the period, however, the American ruling class reluctantly moved to grant legal reforms, including those enshrined in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson five months after Selma. A number of significant social reforms were also enacted during this period, including Medicare and other anti-poverty programs.

The reforms wrenched from the ruling class during the 1960s, however, marked the last gasp of liberal reformism in the United States. The American ruling class responded to the deepening crisis of the capitalist system with a two-pronged strategy. Beginning in the 1970s and escalating in the 1980s, it carried out an unrelenting assault on the working class. Jobs were destroyed, living standards were driven down, public services were slashed.

To better carry out this offensive, the ruling class worked deliberately to integrate a small minority of the African American population into positions of power and privilege. Particularly after the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.—who, while remaining within the framework of the Democratic Party, had begun to focus his attention increasingly on the issues of social inequality and war—a section of the civil rights establishment was brought into the apparatus of state power. This included the likes of Andrew Young, Jesse Jackson and John Lewis, now a congressman, who was among the leaders of the 1965 Selma march.

During his 1968 election campaign, Richard Nixon called for giving a section of the African American population a “piece of the action.” As president, he initiated a program of “black capitalism.” He signed an executive order to form the Office of Minority Business Enterprise in March 1969, declaring that its aim was to “demonstrate that blacks, Mexican Americans, and others can participate in a growing economy on the basis of equal opportunity at the top of the ladder as well as on its lower rungs.”

Affirmative action, promoted by the Republican Nixon and then adopted as a central plank of the Democratic Party program, was aimed at bringing forward—in business, the military, local government, the police and academia—a privileged layer that would identify with American capitalism and facilitate the assault on the working class as a whole. Black nationalism became an ideological means for the restructuring of class rule on the basis of identity politics.

What have been the consequences of these policies? While the system of Jim Crow segregation was ended, the social position of the majority of black workers today is worse today than 50 years ago. According to official statistics, a third of African Americans live in poverty and hunger.

Unemployment and underemployment are pervasive, in the northern states as much as, or even more, than in the south.

These conditions are fundamentally an expression not of racism, as claimed by the Democrats and their periphery, when they acknowledge the social crisis at all, but of class oppression.

THE ENTIRE REASON BEHIND OPEN BORDERS AND AMNESTY IS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED! IS IT WORKING??This is evident in Selma itself. The town’s population has fallen sharply over the past 50 years, while median income is a shocking $22,418, one half of the already low figure for the state of Alabama as a whole. Even by the government’s own insultingly low threshold for poverty, 41.9 percent of Selma falls below it.

All of this is overseen by an African American mayor and police chief, and a City Council and school board that are overwhelmingly African American in composition.

Selma is hardly unique. The poverty rate in the city of Detroit, which has lost almost two-thirds of its population in recent decades, is even higher than in Selma. The city has been run by a predominantly African American political establishment for decades. A similar dynamic is repeated in city after city throughout the United States.

Obama, the first African American president, represents something of a culmination of these processes. The lies and demagogy in Obama’s Selma speech cannot conceal the huge class gulf between the government he heads and the self-sacrificing workers and youth who led the fight for civil rights. They fought for equality. He represents privilege.

In his remarks, Obama quoted the immortal words from the Declaration of Independence, “All men are created equal,” but he presides over a level of inequality previously unheard of in American history.

While Obama spoke of the need to “honor the courage of ordinary Americans willing to endure billy clubs and the chastening rod, tear gas and the trampling hoof,” he stands at the apex of a military-intelligence-police apparatus of immense brutality, which carries out a virtual reign of terror against working class youth of all races.

Just last week, the Obama administration announced its decision not to charge the police officer who killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri last August. Over the weekend, another unarmed young man was shot dead in cold blood by police in Madison, Wisconsin.
In his Selma speech, Obama noted the abysmal turnout of one-third or less of eligible voters in recent elections. “What’s our excuse today for not voting?” he asked.

He did not, and could not, answer, but there is a powerful “excuse.” Through bitter experience, millions of workers are beginning to conclude that there is no difference between the two big business parties, nor, for that matter, between the big business politicians of whatever skin color.

Perhaps the biggest lie of all is Obama’s claim, echoed by the many liberal and “left” organizations orbiting the Democratic Party, that the “unfinished business” of the civil rights movement is defined by race.

At the time of the Selma marches, systematic, state-sanctioned racism was a major factor of American political life. Even then, however, racism was subordinate to, and a product of, class rule. It was used as a means of dividing workers and preventing a unified struggle against the capitalist system.

In relation to the explosive class battles of the time, the trade unions, the civil rights establishment, the array of middle class organizations worked to obscure the fundamental class issues and maintain the political domination of the ruling class and its political representatives. The basic question then was the need to forge a revolutionary leadership to unite the working class against the root cause of repression, inequality and war—the capitalist system itself.

Fifty years later, the fundamental class questions are all the more evident. While racism still exists and plays a role in American life, it is now accompanied by the state-sanctioned identity politics that serve a similar purpose: to pit workers against one another and block a united movement of the working class. As we enter a new period of working class upsurge, the burning question remains that of leadership. The “unfinished business” of Selma is the building of the revolutionary leadership of the working class needed to carry out the socialist reorganization of society.

"We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a
nation of citizens," Levin said to applause. "I am sick and tired of
the American citizen being demeaned and treated as a second-class citizen while
anybody who crosses the border is treated as the most virtuous human being on
the face of the earth."

MARK
LEVIN on the GOP surrendering to Obama’s LA RAZA SUPREMACY:

"No more excuses. No more whining. No more
lying to get you elected. No more crony deals with the U.S. Chamber of crony
capitalism," Levin said, taking a political shot at the business community
powerhouse U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

NAFTABORDERS and BILLIONAIRES

AMNESTY: America’s death warrant

THE CONSPIRACY to DESTROY AMERICA’S BORDERS… Obama
and his

Wall Street banksters

“This nation no longer is a democratic
republic...rather it has become a tool of the super-rich members of the above mentioned elite who
preselect our presidents based on their cooperation and complicity with the
elite’s ultimate goals. Obama has, in their opinion done superbly carrying out
the plans well laid out for him by his backers.”

BILLIONAIRES
partner with MEXICO, OBAMA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to assault the
AMERICAN WORKER…. Amnesty, it’s all about keeping wages depressed and passing
along the real cost of all that “cheap” mex labor to the American middle class.

To
cite just one example, if there is a shortage of U.S. engineers, are 1.5
million Americans with engineering degrees either unemployed or working in
other fields? In all too many cases, U.S. tech companies prefer foreign workers
on temporary visas because they are cheaper and more exploitable than
Americans.

“At
the hearing, Dr. Rakesh Kochar, Associate Director for Research at the Pew
Hispanic Center, testified that in the year following the official end of the
recession (June 2009), foreign-born workers gained 656,000 jobs while
native-born workers lost an additional 1.2 million jobs.”

"We
have a situation where the job market — the bottom fell out, yet we kept legal
immigration relatively high without even a national debate," he said.
"As a consequence, a lot of the job growth has been going to
immigrants."

Mr.
Obama did take action this year to grant many illegal immigrants up to 30 years
of age a tentative legal status that prevents them from being deported and
authorizes them to work in the United States.

Some
Republicans in Congress have criticized Mr. Obama's policy, saying it violates
his powers and will mean more competition for scarce jobs.

“Slowly, Mr. Obama has changed the United
States into another country — the Soviet States of America — an authoritarian
state where false promises of "hope and change" were used to manipulate
the public.”

“What
we're seeing is our Congress and national leadership dismantling our laws by
not enforcing them. Lawlessness becomes the norm, just like Third World
corruption. Illegal aliens now have more rights and privileges than Americans.
If you are an illegal alien, you can drive a car without a driver's license or
insurance. You may obtain medical care without paying. You may work without
paying taxes. Your children enjoy free education at the expense of taxpaying
Americans.”

THE HOPE AND CHANGE CLOWN ASSAULTS THE AMERICAN MIDDLE
CLASS AS HE HANDS BILLIONS IN WELFARE TO HIS BANKSTER DONORS!

Today,
President Obama will sign a bill to cut $8.7 billion from the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, slashing almost
$100 per month in benefits for nearly a million households.

The
attack on food stamps comes as Obama and the Democrats posture in the run-up to
this year’s mid-term elections as opponents of social inequality and defenders
of the poor and jobless. Nowhere in the establishment media is the glaring
contradiction between what the Democrats say and what they do even discussed.